Example 25-226

Aim goin na got mai motika.
Aim
1sg.be
go-in
go-prog
na
now
got
com/ins
mai
1sg.poss
motika.
car
I’m going now with my car.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the second progressive construction and the comitative/instrumental preposition got(a).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt